US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Oct. 7 for "Ablation and imaging catheter with user interface to catalogue ablation parameters and identification labels for lesions" (American, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,490, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Ablation and imaging catheter with user interface to catalogue ablation parameters and identification labels for lesions" was invented by Zachary J. Malchano (San Francisco), Ruey-Feng Peh (Singapore), Vahid Saadat (Atherton, Calif.), Ted J. Cooper (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Miller (Boulder, Colo.) and Veerappan Swaminathan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of imaging a tissue region may comprise visualizing one or more lesions in vivo over a tissue region within a body through an imaging catheter. The method may fu...